Released album “Symphonie “Monoton‐Silence””.
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Yves Klein
Yves Klein was a French artist and an important figure in postwar European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme, founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. He developed and used International Klein Blue.
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culture · French artist (1928–1962) · sculptor · judoka · draftsperson · performance artist · conceptual artist · jewelry designer · composer · visual artist · artist · painter · also Yves Klein, Klein
Born 28 April 1928 · Died 6 June 1962 · Q154335
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2018· 1 entry
The podcast This is Love released an episode, "Blue," about Klein and his work
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2017· 1 entry
The MoMA- and WNYC-produced contemporary art podcast A Piece of Work hosted by Abbi Jacobson had an episode focused on Klein's blue monochromes
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2013· 1 entry
Klein's Sculpture Éponge Bleue Sans Titre, SE 168, a 1959 sculpture made with natural sea sponges drenched in blue pigment, fetched $22 million, the highest price paid for a sculpture by the artist, at Sotheby's New York
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2010· 1 entry
Klein's widow Rotraut Klein-Moquay claimed in an interview that his early death was linked to toxic fumes inhaled during his work on Sponge Relief in Gelsenkirchen three years earlier
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2008· 1 entry
MG 9 (1962), a monochromatic gold painting, sold for $21 million at Christie's
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Conférence à la Sorbonne”.
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1982· 1 entry
Classified Klein as an early, though enigmatic, postmodernist artist
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “Prince of Space / Tanz der Leere”.
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1962· 2 entries
Died 1962-06-06.
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Klein married Rotraut Uecker who gave birth to their son shortly after his death
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1960· 1 entry
For example, had an audience dressed in formal evening wear watching the models go about their task while an instrumental ensemble played Klein's 1949 The Monotone Symphony
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1958· 1 entry
But that finally happened in 1983, he appropriated the Place de la Concorde by shining blue spotlights onto the central obelisk
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1954· 1 entry
Klein wrote a book on judo called Les Fondements du judo
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1953· 1 entry
Where he became, at the age of 25, a master at judo receiving the rank of yondan (4th dan/degree black-belt) from the Kodokan, becoming the first European to rise to that rank
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1950· 1 entry
His first public showing was the publication of the artist's book Yves Peintures in November 1954
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-04-28.
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